You are traversing a wilderness and crossing your fingers that the flight won't go down.
Chinese leaders are traversing the globe and receiving foreign leaders at home, but less noticed has been the blitz of China's new soft-power efforts.
"The events of 1997-99 cast disquieting doubt on the I.M.F.'s capacity to maintain financial stability at a time when titanic sums of money are traversing borders, continents and oceans," Mr. Blustein writes.
Journalists for The New York Times are traversing the country from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to the George Washington Bridge in New York, chatting with voters about the presidential campaign.
I was sympathetic.' Besides, even as the poor farmers were smuggling coffee along the muddy mountain tracks that we are traversing now, Amin's army was doing it on main roads.
Frodo (Mr. Wood), the little hobbit entrusted with the corruptive ring, and his friend Sam (Mr. Astin) are traversing wild country on their way to Mordor, where Frodo is to dispose of the ring in the fires of Mount Doom.
